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by HeyOrca Inc. · www.heyorca.com

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HeyOrca at a glance

Vendor
HeyOrca Inc.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates HeyOrca 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. HeyOrca is a social media marketing platform from HeyOrca Inc. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Data Protection Officer

Weighted verdict

Notes that every comment and message arriving from a network is personal data the company now processes. Wants a DPA that addresses that squarely, retention on the conversation archive, and an answer on where the sentiment analysis sends the text.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Data Protection Officer

Panel median The Data Protection Officer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Data Protection Officer
Publishing & calendar 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Engagement & community inbox 3 of 5 3 of 5
Analytics & reporting 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Approvals, roles & brand safety 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Network coverage & API resilience 3.5 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 0.5 of 5 0.5 of 5

Publishing & calendar

How this is scored

Scheduling across networks: per-network formatting, the calendar as a working surface, bulk operations, and what happens when a post fails at 3am.

0 — One post to several networks at once with no per-network variation and no calendar.

3 — A calendar with scheduling and basic per-network text variants; failures are discovered by noticing the post never appeared.

5 — Per-network content, media and first-comment variants, drafts, a usable calendar with drag-and-drop, and failure notifications with a retry.

8 — Bulk upload and CSV import, evergreen or queue-based scheduling, link shortening with UTM rules, preview matching each network's actual rendering, and stories, reels or shorts supported where the API allows.

10 — Publishing is dependable at volume: hundreds of scheduled items across many accounts without collision, best-time recommendations from the account's own history, and every failure surfaced with the platform error and a one-click recovery.

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The Data Protection Officer

Scheduling covers per-network customization, bulk creation with per-post edits, bulk status and copy-or-move actions on the calendar, and a Best Times feature built on the account's own performance history; failed posts can be diagnosed with full platform error codes. We found no public information on CSV import, evergreen or queue-based scheduling, previews matching each network's rendering, or a one-click retry after a failure. 1 2 3 9

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Engagement & community inbox

How this is scored

Comments, mentions and messages in one queue — the half of the job that is customer service wearing a marketing badge.

0 — No inbox; engagement happens in each native app.

3 — Mentions and comments listed per network with no assignment, no status and no history.

5 — A unified inbox across the connected networks with assignment, status and internal notes, and the conversation history visible per person.

8 — Direct messages included where the API allows, saved replies, SLA timers, sentiment or priority flags, spam and hidden-comment handling, and escalation to a helpdesk.

10 — The inbox is a service desk: every public and private interaction in one queue with ownership and response-time reporting, moderation rules that act automatically, and a per-person history spanning networks.

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The Data Protection Officer

Comments, mentions and DMs sit in one inbox across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, with hide-and-resolve moderation, batch actions, per-client inboxes and AI-drafted replies the team edits before sending. We found no public information on assignment, internal notes, SLA timers, automatic moderation rules or a per-person conversation history — and nothing on where the AI reply generator sends the comment text it processes, which is my standing question for any inbox vendor. 4 5

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Analytics & reporting

How this is scored

Measurement across networks with different metrics and retention windows, plus the reporting an agency hands a client.

0 — Per-network vanity counts pulled live; no history kept.

3 — Basic post and profile metrics with a short history and no cross-network comparison.

5 — Metrics stored beyond the networks' own retention, cross-network comparison, competitor benchmarking, and scheduled exports.

8 — Custom dashboards, white-label client reporting, paid and organic combined where the API allows, UTM-based attribution into web analytics, and audience demographics over time.

10 — Reporting answers what worked and why: metrics normalised across networks with the differences documented rather than hidden, full historical retention independent of platform windows, and exports an agency can hand over unedited.

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The Data Protection Officer

Post insights are retained up to two years for Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and one year for LinkedIn, with cross-channel custom reports, competitor benchmarking, scheduled PDF delivery, shareable links and information icons explaining how each number is calculated. We found no public information on UTM-based attribution into web analytics, and the reporting retention tables are the only archive statement we could find anywhere. 6 7

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Approvals, roles & brand safety

How this is scored

How a team of several people and an agency publish to a brand account without an accident — and who can be shown to have approved what.

0 — Shared login, no roles, no approvals.

3 — Separate users with a coarse admin split and an optional single approval step.

5 — Roles per network and account, multi-step approval workflows, comments on drafts, and an activity log.

8 — Client or brand workspaces with strict separation, configurable approval chains including legal review, content locking after approval, and an audit trail of who changed and published what.

10 — Governance a regulated brand could pass an audit on: complete audit trail of edits, approvals and publications, enforced approval before anything reaches a network, granular permissions per account and action, and no shared credentials anywhere in the design.

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The Data Protection Officer

Multiple custom approval workflows with configurable stage rules, reminders at fixed intervals, and external client sign-off without a client login, plus an audit trail recording who changed what, when, and prior versions — a defensible record of who approved a publication. We found no public information on granular permissions per account or content locking after approval, and workspace admins retain a manual override of any post's status. 2 8 9

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Network coverage & API resilience

How this is scored

Which networks are supported through official APIs, how quickly the vendor follows platform changes, and what the customer keeps when a network breaks or leaves.

0 — A few networks, some through unofficial means, with no statement about API status or platform changes.

3 — The major networks through official APIs, but feature gaps undocumented and platform changes communicated after they bite.

5 — Official API integrations across the main networks with the per-network limitations documented, and a changelog when platform behaviour changes.

8 — Broad official coverage including the newer networks, a public status page for integrations, advance notice of deprecations, and full export of the customer's own publishing and engagement archive.

10 — Platform dependency handled as an engineering commitment: official partner status where it exists, per-network capability documented and kept current, rapid response to API changes with the history to show it, and an archive that stays the customer's whatever a network does next.

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The Data Protection Officer

Seven networks including Threads are supported, per-network API limits such as TikTok's logged-in connection and notification publishing for carousels are documented, and the X discontinuation converted profiles to placeholder accounts that kept approval flows and manual publishing working. We found no public information on advance notice of deprecations, official partner status, or export of the engagement archive — the calendar exports to XLS, but we found nothing on exporting the conversations themselves. 2 10 11

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the archive and the community conversations are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors touch them. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. Note that the networks themselves are non-EU by definition — this criterion judges the tool, not the platforms it talks to.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — AI features, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and the handling of message content from the networks described with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor European, certification published, and a DPA that squarely addresses the personal data arriving from the networks in comments and messages.

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The Data Protection Officer

No sovereignty attributes are on record: we found no public information on hosting location, the contracting entity's jurisdiction, subprocessors, a data processing agreement, or retention of the conversation archive. The AI reply generator and AI report summaries process comment and report text with no stated destination, safeguard or legal basis — for a tool ingesting comments and DMs from the networks, that absence is decisive. 4 7

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a team can compute the real annual invoice for their account and user count — including the tier where approvals and the inbox begin — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-user headline exists, but the number of social accounts included, or the tier where approvals and the inbox appear, is unstated.

5 — Per-user or per-account prices public with billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed capability (inbox, approvals, reporting) sits in an unpriced tier.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with account and user limits, feature boundaries, the cost of an extra account or seat, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given number of social accounts, users and client workspaces, with every add-on priced.

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The Data Protection Officer

We found no public prices at all; the only pricing-adjacent facts are a free trial without a card, a free plan with limited metrics, and unlimited users with no per-user fees. A team cannot compute an annual invoice from these pages, nor locate the tier where approvals and the inbox begin. 2 5 6

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Questions about HeyOrca

Is HeyOrca European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where HeyOrca is based.

Where does HeyOrca store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does HeyOrca have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to HeyOrca?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Swat.io (3.5/5), Hootsuite (3/5) and Agorapulse (3/5) highest among the other 28 Social Media Marketing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Swat.io (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: HeyOrca alternatives.

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Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Publishing & calendar — found from sitemap www.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Publishing & calendar — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Engagement & community inbox — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Engagement & community inbox — found from sitemap www.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Analytics & reporting — found from sitemap www.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Analytics & reporting — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Approvals, roles & brand safety — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Approvals, roles & brand safety — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Network coverage & API resilience — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Network coverage & API resilience — found from sitemap help.heyorca.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →